To the Editor:
This Thanksgiving we are thankful for PCI Construction for taking our store from destroyed to dazzling in 45 days.
We are thankful for the United Methodist Church and t…
What do you do with more than 20,000 cubic yards of landscape debris? Other than to make a very large salad for a beaver, press your own three-story rolls of paper or have a bonfire that could be …
Hurricane Ian has turned Southwest Florida upside down in many ways, including the delay of many projects slated for construction. Among those delayed is Banyan Gasparilla Sound, unfortunately.
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Retirees at Gasparilla Mobile Estates are hanging on to hope that eviction won’t be the end of their golden years
Gasparilla Mobile Estates residents are still without water and sewer, but not …
While many are still recovering from Hurricane Ian, no mere hurricane can stop the spirit of Boca Grande during the holidays.
We may have confused some people with a graphic in last week’s pap…
Influenza is hitting the U.S. unusually early and very hard. The New York Times reports that we are seeing the most hospitalizations at this point in the season in more than a decade, “underscorin…
We’ve often wondered if there really is a correlation between red tide and hurricanes, and scientists now seem confident enough in their research to affirm this hypothesis.
If you didn’t know, …
By Catherine Ballman, Boca Grande Garden Club
Along with everyone and everything on Gasparilla Island, the Boca Grande Garden Club is tweaking plans for the 2022-23 season. The one certain thin…
Getting Google alerts is a good thing sometimes, because you can see what other people are saying about you. Take this week, for instance, when our island made not one, but three national magazine…
Fairly early in his life as an Episcopal priest, Father Chris Gray discovered the key to good ministry. It sounds simple but does not come naturally to everyone, even those who have chosen the pri…
